- All data is no longer automatically deleted when a failure is detected during creation of the volume data file on a CSI volume. Now only the data file and volume path is removed. ([#96021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96021), [@huffmanca](https://github.com/huffmanca))

* Returns an error for non overcommitable resources if they don't have limit field set in container spec to prevent users from creating invalid configurations. ([#57170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57170), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))

  When an Indexed Job has a number of completions higher than 10^5 and parallelism higher than 10^4, and a big number of Indexes fail, Kubernetes might not be able to track the termination of the Job. Kubernetes now emits a warning, at Job creation, when the Job manifest exceeds both of these limits. ([#118420](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118420), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps]

* fix incorrect error info when creating an azure file PVC failed ([#56550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56550), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

- DaemonSet controller is now using backoff algorithm to avoid hot loops fighting with kubelet on pod recreation when a particular DaemonSet is misconfigured. ([#65309](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65309), [@tnozicka](https://github.com/tnozicka))

- Fixed a bug in the TopologyManager. Previously, the TopologyManager would only guarantee alignment if container creation was serialized in some way. Alignment is now guaranteed under all scenarios of container creation. ([#87759](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87759), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska)) [SIG Node]

* Changed ext3/ext4 volume creation to not reserve any portion of the volume for the root user. When creating ext3/ext4 volume, mkfs defaults to reserving 5% of the volume for the super-user (root). This patch changes the mkfs to pass -m0 to disable this setting.

* fix incorrect error info when creating an azure file PVC failed ([#56550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56550), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix Topology Aware Hints not working when the `topology.kubernetes.io/zone` label is added after Node creation
  - Fix a data race in TopologyCache when `AddHints` and `SetNodes` are called concurrently ([#117269](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117269), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]

* Fix a bug where kubelet would not retry pod sandbox creation when the restart policy of the pod is Never ([#79451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79451), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))